Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate
November 21, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyPrinceton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the furred early ancestors of modern humans still roamed. Gas bubbles trapped in the cores —…
Million Year-Old Ice Holds Answers to Climate Record
May 17, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzA team of researchers with members from Princeton University, the University of Maine and Oregon State University has found that greenhouse gasses a million years ago, were only slightly higher than they were between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago. In…
$780,000 Awarded for Innovative Research, Teaching, and Mentorship in Energy and the Environment
May 28, 2014 ・ Holly P. WellesPrinceton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE) have announced awards totaling $780,000 to support eight (8) innovative projects in energy and the environment. The awards follow a joint call for research proposals earlier…
Carbon Mitigation Initiative News – Winter 2014
February 19, 2014 ・ Holly WellesPaleoclimate” authored by Michael Bender, professor of geoscience at Princeton University In his new book “Paleoclimate”, Michael Bender, professor of geosciences at Princeton University and a lead-member of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), produced a concise and comprehensive history of…
Secrets of the Southern Ocean
November 17, 2013 ・ Igor Heifetz
New Book by Michael Bender – Paleoclimate
September 6, 2013 ・ Igor HeifetzUS1 Reports on Princeton University’s Role in Saving the Climate
June 6, 2012 ・ Michele AlperinGetting to the Core of Climate Change
May 16, 2012 ・ Michael D. LemonickTwo New Investigator Awards Support Research on Desalination Technology and Metabolic Rate Processes of Plants
May 2, 2011 ・ Pascale Maloof PoussartFirst-year graduate student Lichao Cai looking at a small vial containing a slurry of clathrate hydrates. The Grand Challenges Program has awarded two New Investigator Grants for 2011-2012. One will support a proposal by Michael Bender to develop new methods…